Kaseadillla’s Comments (group member since May 04, 2016)

Kaseadillla’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

Mary wrote: "Ravenclaw 12/7/17 The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories"
1 point for Ravenclaw!

Sha wrote: "Slytherin Bet Me, Dec 7 Once Upon a Marquess, Dec 8"
Allegra wrote: "Add another to the Slytherin tally, please Chocolat December 7"
3 points for Slytherin!!!

Tara wrote: "Gryffindor Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Dec 7 Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination Dec 7"
Sandra wrote: "Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs 12/7 Go GRYFFINDOOOOR!!"
3 points for GRYFFINDORRR

Sha wrote: "Kaseadillla, I appreciate all the hard work you are putting into this. It's the most fun I ever had in an online competition. :3"
Thanks, Sha! Much appreciated =)

Welcome, Lauri!

GayeLynn - the books to be read in January have been posted. You should be able to see them on the group's homepage - to the right of the "Currently Reading" book covers, there's an "Upcoming" column with books to be read.
You can also go to the group's bookshelf and select the "to read" bookshelf.
Hope that helps!

ayyy dios mio I forgot my own books

A Court of Wings and Ruin 11/30
Immortal Ops 12/1
Critical Intelligence 12/3
Dark Matter 12/6

GO GO GRYFFINDORRRRR

Mariana wrote: "Every added book I just kept thinking "poor Kasey, so so many... but she'll be happy" ..."

Yea happy my house is LOSING come onnnnnn gryffindorrrrrrrr.

SHEEESH guys read much?!??!

Tally is (finally) updated. Quidditch positions too. Please please check your name and tally to make sure it is correct as I'm bound to have made a mistake somewhere in there.

CONGRATS to Ravenclaw for turning 1,000!

Ravenclaw: 1,020 house points, 73 witches and wizards
Slytherin: 692 house points, 39 witches and wizards
Hufflepuff: 597 house points, 51 witches and wizards
Gryffindor: 586 house points, 38 witches and wizards

Mariana wrote: "Kasey you haven't been seen in a while, are you ok? ;) hope you are"

Yup, thanks for asking! Just on other threads, not this one. Haven't had a chance to catch up, and there as SOOOO MANY OH MY GOODNESS. great reading folks.

Thea wrote: "I'm late to the party but am excited to join in. I've been sorted into Hufflepuff- which sounds perfectly suited to me. Quick question: may I claim credit for all the books I've read since August o..."

HI Thea - up to you! You can add books starting now, or dating back to august.
requirements for posts are in the very first comment of this thread. Let me know if you have additional questions!

we got a little off a while back...

Total Group Pages = 411,216

Welcome, Billie!

We have a few inspiring writers in the group...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Marcos wrote: "Welcome, Donelle, Ashley, Gill, Eric, Kara, Ananta, Mariana, Caitie, Kaitlyn, Lisa, Teresa, Amber, Martin, Shivangi, Keara, Maike, Joy, Cathy, and Ahmad.Welcome, Donelle, Ashley, Gill, Eric, Kara, ..."

This is a crazy comment - so many new members!!

Welcome, Marie-vicky and Joan!

Welcome Cristina, Sarah, Michelle, Rachel, Craig, and GayeLynn!

Just finished. Mixed feelings.

As first, honestly (and disappointingly) not a fan. I thought the writing was immature/not great prose, I don't know, felt like a first draft not a final. And I guessed who the kidnapper was in chapter 1, so the mystery of the first half of the book was unfortunately gone. There were some "oh shit" surprise moments, but something lost because it became predictable.

The whole concept of the box/multiverse was great, completely redeemed the book for me. I've read other books with similar concepts so wasn't as brand new/mind blowing but still cool.

When Amanda and Jason started exploring worlds, the book became predictable again... knew there would be horror and crazy worlds they would explore, and then eventually find the right one. The whole concept of close-but-not-exact being more horrific than totally different was really interesting and unexpected. Unfortunately again, given that they ran into another Jason inside the box, I anticipated multiple Jason's ending up in the right place at the end.

The ending... I'm just kind of meh on. I'm not sure how else it could have ended, so felt natural from that stand point. However, I agree with others in that Daniela was talked about ALL THE TIME and Charlie not at all, so when Charlie chose the new world it made sense but there was no emotional response for me because I had no idea who that character was and was not convinced of Jason's emotional ties to him.

Overall, very cool concept, meh on execution for me.

Yes, looks like Watership Down has an original publish date of 1972 so should be in the other thread.

Marcos wrote: "... And the idea in item v, I guess, help solve the pending questions, Kasey. :-) ..."

I think that would do it! as long as the nominator has some way of showing that a book belongs to the category (aka can show book written in language 'x' by author from country 'y') that works for me!

Matthew wrote: "I've finished chapter 1. I have a suspicion of who the guy in the mask may be. It's interesting all the foreshadowing in his storytelling, but it's all written in present tense. Makes me feel more ..."

I guessed it in chapter 1 too... maybe too much foreshadowing?

Marcos wrote: "...we might keep any work originally written in English out this time..."

From an administrative perspective, if we do this, how do we verify initial language that a book was published in? Just looking at Goodreads pages, the "language" for a certain book is tied to the edition you are looking at, not language of original publication.

I love these ideas, I guess just struggling with how we execute smoothly. Given past experience with less defined parameters (ex. classics vs. modern/popular before we added the 1970 line, "buddy reads" in general - both my bad) I'm inclined to lock this down before suggesting broadly.

Welcome, Nikkie and Anitha!

Nikkie - Amazon has a free Kindle app that you can download on any device, and they have a Kindle version (aka e-book version) of the book Here!

This is all great feedback, thanks everyone!!

Marcos - makes sense, I think choosing a nation/nationality to focus on would be great! I guess I still have the same follow-up question, though, regarding the process here: How do we easily verify the eligibility of a nomination?
Are there lists of authors or books by country that are comprehensive and accurate that you know of? Since we're narrowing the list of books from everything published prior and post 1970 (an easily verifiable criteria because it's available on Goodreads for every book), I'd want to be able to provide a list or at least some ideas for those nominating, and then some easy way for us to check if nominated books are indeed from a certain nation.